Book ID: CBB000071049

Hugh Miller and the controversies of Victorian science (1996)

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Shortland, Michael (Editor)


Clarendon Press


Publication Date: 1996
Physical Details: x + 401 pp.; illus.; notes; bibl.

Description Contents: Shortland, Michael: Bonneted mechanic and narrative hero: The self-modelling of Hugh Miller. Oldroyd, David R.: The geologist from Cromarty. Paradis, James G.: The natural historian as antiquary of the world: Hugh Miller and the rise of literary natural history. Henry, John: Palaeontology and theodicy: Religion, politics and the Asterolepsis of Stromness. Brooke, John Hedley: Like minds: The God of Hugh Miller. Macleod, Donald: Hugh Miller, the disruption and the Free Church of Scotland. Alston, David: The fallen meteor: Hugh Miller and local tradition. Vincent, David: Miller's improvement: A classic tale of self-advancement? Robb, David: “Stand, and unfold yourself”: My schools and schoomasters. Porter, Roy: Miller's madness. Shortland, Michael: Hugh Miller's contribution to the Witness, 1840-56. Shortland, Michael: A bibliography of Hugh Miller.


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Review Secord, J. (1998) Review of "Hugh Miller and the controversies of Victorian science". British Journal for the History of Science (pp. 249-50). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Taylor, Michael A.
Miller, Hugh
Cumming, David A.
Trewin, Nigel H.
Taylor, Michael L.
Stafford, Robert A.
Concepts
Geology
Biographies
Fossils
Memoirs
Paleontology
Earth sciences
Time Periods
19th century
Places
British Isles
Scotland
Edinburgh
London (England)
Institutions
Geological Society of London
Great Britain. Geological Survey
University of London
Great Britain. Ordnance Survey
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